The Listening Chair

It seems as though the girls have been a little naughtier than usual lately! We have had some recent outbursts that have tried our patience. Like Monday night when Kate was copping an attitude and got mad because I did not have "soft" corn, aka cream corn, and decided to throw her entire plate of food on the floor. TIMEOUT Annie kept yelling from the kitchen chair where she also proceeded to tell me "I No Like" which seems to be her choice of words for all dinner food now except fruit! Which of course causes tantrums when we tell her "you get what you get and don't throw a fit" no fruit if you don't eat your dinner!

Tuesday night wasn't much better. Annie decided to pee in the tub right when I stuck her in. So...as I was getting them out to drain the tub and put new water in, Kate thought it would be funny to pee too but instead it landed on me and the floor! I was NOT happy considering I had just scrubbed the floor on Sun. night because they both peed on it over the weekend! Annie then did not want to get back into the tub and continued to scream loudly throughout the entire two minutes that I forced her to get clean. She was so pooped from screaming that she sat and cuddled with me then for 10 minutes while Kate took her bath.

And tonight...just as they were on their way to Super Balls in their bowl (which means they get a special treat - and you know how they love treats!) they proceeded to jump on the bed (laughing hysterically) after numerous requests to stop. We are like a broken record every night when it comes to NO JUMPING on the bed! Kate was put in her chair and Annie hers and they lost their treats :( They then decided to just jump on their pillows instead...always finding a way to have fun!

I know that our rules and discipline are sinking in even though they may choose not to always follow them. Kate sat down and crossed her legs at her table yesterday morning and told Annie that she needed to come to the "Listening Chair" for a talk! Annie was throwing a fit about something or another and Kate took it upon herself to discipline her...which she tries to do all too often. She sat on Annie's jacket and told her that once they had their talk she could have her jacket and they could go to school. I had to laugh pretty hard because it just goes to show that while she may pretend not to pay attention to us...she is definitely listening to what we tell her!

Annie too is listening to what we say...one of her new words lately seems to be "damn it". Oops!!!!

These are just a few snippet into the fun times we have had recently. We love our girls more than ever but boy can they be exhausting! And we have many more fun times than we do naughty times so I guess I can't complain! :)-

I mean seriously...how can you not just love these little faces!